Spacebar Shortcut: Hand Tool Showing But Not Working

Hello, Im using Windows 10 with Photoshop Cs5 and i have the same problem with space bar.

The solution is adjust the touchpad sensivity to the highest value. In win 10 Settings > Devices > Touchpad: you have a SELECT with the option "most sensitive". 

My problem occurred on a laptop with touchpad. This has not worked for 2-1/2 yrs, since new. Found the solution here but I repeat it. I am on Windows 10 with an ASUS laptop and running PS CC and LR.

Solution was to go to touchpad settings and disable touchpad delay to "No delay (always on)". Default setting from factory was "short delay".

I am using an Evoluent Brand Mouse.

In Windows 7, Adobe Photoshop CC (2016/2017) the space bar/pan worked fine.

In Windows 10, Adobe Photoshop CC (2016/2017) the space bar would change the icon to a hand, but would not pan around the image (no effect).

Solution A:

I plugged in a standard generic mouse and I can pan fine.

Work-around Solution B:

I can use the mouse wheel to pan vertically and I can hold control to pan horizontally

Better work-around solution C:

I can hold space and tap control key once, then I can pan around using the Evoluent Mouse.

I had the same problem. Restart solved the issue.

I've been dealing with this for a while and none of the solutions above have worked. I'm on a Win10 - Lenovo X1 laptop, with Illustrator CC 2015.3. I was about to give up since there hasn't been any response from Adobe (shockingly </sarcasm>) when I accidentally discovered something, the shortcut has changed. Instead of space bar and mouse its:

Alt + Space bar more specifically: Space bar + Alt I got the hand tool, clicked the mouse to get the hand to grab the document and move it around.

Thanks so much for your information about TouchFreeze.  I was having the same spacebar/hand problem.  I uninstalled TouchFreeze, restarted my computer, and now everything is working perfectly.  Much appreciated!

The problem is Palm Gesture Threshold.

For anyone using a laptop touchpad and Windows 8 or above, I managed to solve this problem by adjusting the following setting:

Control Panel > Mouse > Settings (Your installed TouchPad driver, mine was Synaptics) > Palm Gesture Threshold (could be under "Advanced" tab) > Pull the slider to Minimum/Disable the setting.

All this time I'd been confused why this panning feature just wouldn't work anymore. Keep in mind, the Hand Tool will not pan in Standard Screen Mode unless the document is significantly zoomed beyond 100% (or simply if the canvas is larger than your screen resolution that the Navigator window's red rectangle resizes). For any other screen mode it will work as it should.

Wow, so glad I found this thread!

I've been using Adobe since version 4 or 5...almost half my life, and the space bar was the first and most often-used hot key I ever employed with my work.

All of a sudden today, it no longer switches to the Hand Tool temporarily, which slows my entire process down.

Adobe!!! This is like quietly removing the brake from a vehicle you've been driving most of your life!

I use Adobe CC 15 with a Wacom Intuous, on a Mac Pro 2.7 GHz 12-Core Intel Xeon E5, running Yosemite 10.10.3 and the few-but-growing changes in hotkeys and layout over the past couple releases/updates have been making my head spin!! I wish they would consult with veteran users when they start redesigning their entire GUI!

Only after having to find my hidden Library/Prefs folder, deleting the settings file there, resetting the prefs by double clicking the app and then holding Shift+CMD+OPT, (still not working) and finally closing and reopening Chrome, did the shortcut come back.

PHEW!

My solution was-  delete Punto Switcher or add Photoshop to list of "an exception list" of this program)

If its doesnt work - check every process in your Pc or Mac. Try to delete one by one and every time check the shortcuts in PS

Imac, OS El capitan + wacom Intuos3

This is called Overscrolling, to solve this problem use regedit.exe to open your registry editor and add new DWORD (32bit) Value called ExtraOverscrolling, as follows:

for cs6

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Photoshop\60.0]

"ExtraOverscrolling"=dword:00000002

for cs5

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Photoshop\12.0]

"ExtraOverscrolling"=dword:00000002